22:11Simon and Briony Rea from London flew from Heathrow to Split just hours before the news was announced that the UK government would remove Croatia from its travel corridor lsit. Portugal added to UK Covid-19 safe travel list Read moreThey immediately started to look into how they could leave before 4am on Saturday when the new quarantine rules come into effect. We are due to go to a friend’s wedding and I really don’t want to let him down by being stuck isolating at home. We had read about the possibility of Croatia being taken off the list but we decided to take the risk because of the financial implications of not going. The couple estimate that they will lose about £750 on hotel bookings, as well as having to pay for the ferry and hotels in Italy.

Source: The Guardian August 19, 2020 23:16 UTC